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To review the clinical characteristics, diagnostic indices, and prognostic significance of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction across various cardiovascular conditions.

June 1, 1989CirculationOpen Access

Evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function.

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To review the clinical characteristics, diagnostic indices, and prognostic significance of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction across various cardiovascular conditions.
Synthesized clinical literature regarding concomitant and independent systolic and diastolic cardiac abnormalities.
Evaluated hemodynamic diagnostic indices, including peak rate of left ventricular pressure fall (-dP/dt), relaxation time constant (tau), and peak filling rates.
Diastolic dysfunction manifests across coronary artery disease, heart failure, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aortic valve disease, and hypertension, often secondary to systolic dysfunction but occasionally as an isolated abnormality.
Prospective evidence establishing the predictive capacity of isolated abnormal diastolic indices for future symptomatic heart failure or systolic decline remains lacking.

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This editorial discusses the clinical entity of diastolic dysfunction, its heterogeneity, and the uncertainty regarding the predictive value of abnormal diastolic indexes in patients without overt cardiac disease.

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Wilbur Y.W. Lew (1989) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a89bb1f1fb56efa37d46a24 https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.79.6.1393

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Evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function.

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